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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and the Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy to conduct a tobacco summit with other tobacco-producing states to examine the future of the tobacco industry and to chart a course of action that would benefit the industry as a whole and tobacco producers specifically.
WHEREAS, the tobacco industry is undergoing vast changes in its structure, from the methods by which tobacco is raised to the methods by which it is marketed; and
WHEREAS, large fluctuations in the basic quotas of tobacco producers, increasing utilization of tobacco contracting, and decreasing use of federal tobacco graders has put the future of the tobacco program in question; and
WHEREAS, a tobacco summit to discuss the future of the tobacco industry is critical to the survival of the tobacco producer; and
WHEREAS, Kentucky, as the nation's leading burley tobacco state, and second leading overall tobacco state, is the likely choice to conduct a tobacco summit to address the future of the tobacco industry;
NOW, THEREFORE,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Senate concurring therein:
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Section 1. The Kentucky Department of Agriculture and Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy are urged to conduct a tobacco summit with other tobacco-producing states to examine the future of the tobacco industry and to chart a course of action that would benefit the industry as a whole and tobacco producers specifically.
Section 2. The summit should address all aspects of the tobacco industry, including, but not limited to, the federal price support program, the federal grading service, experimental uses for tobacco, contracting, and the effects these items have on tobacco producers.
Section 3. The Department of Agriculture and the Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy are encouraged to present the findings of the summit to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2001.
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